What are the latest developments in occupational risk factors?

As a reminder, any employee exposed beyond the regulatory thresholds defined for the professional risk factors of activities carried out in hyperbaric environments, extreme temperatures, noise, night work, work in successive alternating shifts and repetitive work, benefits from the opening of a professional prevention account (C2P) in which he/she will be able to accumulate points that can be used to finance :

• hours of training, with a view to gaining access to jobs with less or no exposure to arduous work;
• part-time work without loss of pay ;
• quarters of additional pension insurance to enable early retirement;
• a professional retraining project.

As part of the pension reform, Decree no. 2023-760 of August 10, 2023 lowers the thresholds associated with occupational risk factors for certain work patterns.

As a result, the thresholds associated with the following occupational risk factors have been modified:

• the threshold of 120 nights per year is reduced to 100 nights per year for the "night work" occupational risk factor;
• the threshold of 50 nights a year is reduced to 30 nights a year for the "alternating shifts" factor.

In summary, as of September^1, 2023, the criteria and thresholds for obtaining points under the C2P account are as follows:

PROFESSIONAL RISK FACTORMinimum intensityMinimum durationAggressivephysical environmentActivitiesperformed in a hyperbaric environmentInterventions or work1,200 hectopascals

60 interventions

or work per year

Extreme temperaturesTemperature less than or equal to 5 degrees Celsius or at least equal to 30 degrees Celsius900 hours per yearNoiseNoise exposure level over an eight-hour reference period of at least 81 decibels (A)600 hours a yearExposure to a peak sound pressure level of at least 135 decibels (C)120 times a yearWorking patternsNight workOne hour of work between midnight and 5 a.m. 100 nights a yearSuccessive alternating shiftsSuccessive alternating shifts involving at least one hour of work between midnight and 5 a.m. 30 nights a yearRepetitive work characterized by the performance of work involving the execution of repeated movements, soliciting all or part of the upper limb, at a high frequency and under constrained cadenceCycle time less than or equal to 30 seconds : 15 or more technical actions900 hours per yearCycle time greater than 30 seconds, variable cycle time or no cycle time: 30 or more technical actions per minute

The procedures for reporting exposure to occupational risk factor(s) remain unchanged:

• For employees with a contract of employment still in force at the end of the calendar year: the employer must declare the occupational risk factor(s) to which they have been exposed above the thresholds during the past calendar year, by the December payroll at the latest.
• For employees with a contract of employment lasting 1 month or more and ending during the calendar year: The employer must declare the occupational risk factor(s) to which they have been exposed no later than the payroll run for the end of this contract of employment.